Baltimore Ravens general manager Ozzie Newsome will step down after the 2018 season and assistant GM Eric DeCosta will take over, team owner Steve Bisciotti announced during his State of the Ravens address Friday.

The Ravens' plan for Newsome to step down after the 2018 season is a plan Bisciotti and Newsome put in place four years ago. Newsome will remain with team in some capacity.

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DeCosta turned down the Green Bay Packers' GM job this off-season knowing that Newsome would retire after the 2018 season.

Bisciotti said it was a consideration to replace head coach John Harbaugh after the season, but not one he was inclined to make.

Bisciotti made clear he has no plans to sell the team: "I'm here for the foreseeable future."

Bisciotti said the scouting staff needs to change and that the team has lost too many quality scouts they had developed and then replaced with inexperienced scouts.

Bisciotti said the team has gone through four offensive coordinators the last five years, and when quarterback Joe Flacco said he was comfortable with Marty Mornhinweg and Harbaugh wanted to bring him back, he supported that.

Bisciotti said Ravens players who knelt at the London game was significant and that it "hurt and insulted a lot of our fans." He said he wishes he could have met with players the night before to come up with a better solution.